You've seen elaborate multi-screen simracing setups. You've seen those weird 3D-printed steering wheel attachments clipped onto gamepad joysticks. You've even seen players attempt precision driving with the binary input of WASD keys in Forza. But what you probably haven't seen—until now—is a real, physical car controlling the virtual one on your screen.
Meet Mr. Yeester (stylized as mryeester), who's just done exactly that. He took a real car, specifically an old Honda hatchback, and hacked into the onboard diagnostics of the vehicle in order to read the data coming from its sensors. Then, using Python libraries and some clever scripting, he managed to register the car’s actual gas pedal as an input device inside an emulator. Here’s how he pulled it off.
